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Marius Fabre Marseille soap in blocks of 600 g. Marseille soap or Savon de Marseille (French pronunciation: [savɔ̃ də maʁsɛj]) is a traditional hard soap made from vegetable oils that has been produced around Marseille, France, for about 600 years. The first documented soapmaker was recorded from the city in about 1370. [1]
Place Jean-Jaurès. The Place Jean-Jaurès (French pronunciation: [plas ʒɑ̃ ʒɔʁɛs]), also known as La Plaine ([la plɛn]), is a historic square in Marseille, France.As early as the 13th century, it was a camping ground for Christian Crusaders on their way to the Holy Land.
In 1892, the Compagnie du chemin de fer de l'Est-Marseille established a tramline along the boulevard. [7] On the west side, they built an underground tram tunnel, going all the way to the Gare de Noailles. [7] [8] The boulevard was mentioned by French novelist Émile Zola in Chapter 13 of his 1895 novel entitled Les Mystères de Marseille. [9]
Front of Musée Fabre. The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault département. The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 million euro renovation, which was completed in January 2007.
At the 2019 census, 81.4% of the inhabitants of the Marseille metropolitan area were natives of Metropolitan France, 0.6% were born in Overseas France, and 18.0% were born in foreign countries (two-fifth of whom French citizens from birth, in particular Pieds-Noirs from Algeria arrived in Metropolitan France after the independence of Algeria in ...
The train station was the stopping point of some Marseille trains linking Paris to the Côte d'Azur (the Paris-Côte d'Azur and the Blue Train in particular), which avoided the creep in the Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles by using the Chartreux connection (service restored at the end of 2015). The existence of a tram line (old Line 68; current ...
Salon-de-Provence (French: [salɔ̃ d(ə) pʁɔvɑ̃s], locally [saˈlɔ̃ᵑ də pχoˈvãⁿsə]; Provençal Occitan: Selon de Provença or Seloun de Prouvènço, pronounced [seˈlu de pʀuˈvɛnsɔ]), commonly known as Salon, is a commune located about 52 km (32 mi) northwest of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department (Metropolis of Aix-Marseille Provence), region of Provence-Alpes ...
The Rove Tunnel, the world's longest canal tunnel from Marseille to the Étang de Berre, as well as smaller canals further west, allowed for waterway transport from Marseille to the Rhône until 1963, when the Rove Tunnel closed to traffic. Bouches-du-Rhône is bordered by the rivers Rhône to the west and Durance to the north.